For about two years I have been planning a six-month sabbatical beginning this summer, a good space of time completely “off the grid.” Some serious downtime. I am enjoying excellent health so it has nothing to do with that. It is simply that some shifts in my life and my husband’s have allowed this for […]
Why now the film on HSPs and relationships?
Quite spontaneously, Diana and Will Harper (the producer and director of Sensitive: the Untold Story) and Art (my research collaborator and husband) and I were sitting around a table, continuing to plan for what we had been assuming would be the next film on the highly sensitive child, when we began to express private concerns […]
Suicide and High Sensitivity
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A Different, Highly Sensitive Approach to the Holidays: Leading by Example
I would like to suggest a revolutionary approach to the holidays, although I hope some of you are already doing it. That would be to reduce or cut out the outer activities, and use more of the holidays for rest (yes!). Then in that rested state, you might reflect on the meaning of this time […]
A Table for Four: My Dinner with C. G. Jung, Martin Buber, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Along with all the other exciting things that have happened this fall, I also had accepted and published a manuscript that I’d like to share with you. In it, three men—Jung, Buber, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—are invited to dinner with me in my active imagination. Each devoted their lives to healing the collective psyche, decimated […]
With this Movie We Will Be Much More “Out”—Perhaps It’s Time to Be Much More “In” as Well
With this movie, Sensitive, The Untold Story, the story is going to be told. We HSPs will become much more visible. Of course, thank goodness, your sensitivity can remain invisible when you choose it to be. Remember I did a post about being invisible? http://hsperson.com/invisible-yet-definitive-part-of-yourself/. The comments on that are interesting, too, and some of […]
What Happens When You Make a Herd of Highly Sensitive Horses and People?
I did not want to write about the HSP and Horses Workshops until I experienced a few of them. Now there have been three. The first two were one-day workshops, and the last one, in June, was two days, which we decided worked better for HSPs. At the bottom are some eloquent words from the […]
Emotional Regulation and HSPs
If we HSPs have a problem, we all agree it is overstimulation. But I realize that emotion and empathy, the E in DOES (Depth of Processing, Overstimulation, Emotionally responsive/Empathy, and Sensitive to Subtle), while not at all an inherent problem, can be an even bigger issue for HSPs, “for better and for worse.” I have […]
4 Allies and Too Anxious Beat 1 Shade of Gray
This is a guest post by Spencer Koffman, who is currently writing The Weaving Web (a book about Big History). I grew up a highly sensitive boy in a loud, chaotic family. I was flooded with anxiety and depression. I coped by retreating into my room and shutting the door. By the time I was […]
Let the Market Decide–and You, the “Consumer,” Be Well-informed
As the trait of high sensitivity becomes better known, naturally there are many people talking about it on the Internet, often with websites and YouTube dedicated to your sensitivity or your child’s. Many people and entire institutes now offer services, courses, or books, often with new ways of thinking about or working with high sensitivity. […]